Latest

Is Europe overplaying its weakness?

Politics Ferry Biedermann - September 18, 2025.

NATO’s – or rather, Europe’s – response to the incursion of a swarm of Russian drones into Poland might have been adequate had there not...

EU lays out new tariffs and sanctions on Israel over war in Gaza

EU TA | AP Insight - September 17, 2025.

The European Union laid out its toughest plan yet to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza as Palestinians fled en masse from Israeli...

Nuclear powers should abandon the fantasy of missile defense

Politics David Gross - Daniel Holz - Juan Manuel Santos - Brian Schmidt - September 17, 2025.

US President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska was the first encounter between the leaders of the world’s two largest...

Fifty years of decline – media freedom on the brink of survival

Globalization Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - September 17, 2025.

When the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) published its annual Global State of Democracy 2025 report on 11 September, the message...

Starmer’s problems will still be there after he waves goodbye to Trump

UK Harvey Morris - September 17, 2025.

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented second state visit to the UK this week may offer a brief diversion from the problems enveloping Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership. It...

Russia shows off conventional and nuclear military might in drills — and raises tensions with NATO

Russia TA | AP Insight - September 16, 2025.

A swarm of Russian drones flies into Poland in what officials there regard as a deliberate provocation. NATO responds by bolstering the alliance’s air defenses on...

Environmental arrogance – Beijing turns nature into an instrument of power

China The Editorial Board - September 16, 2025.

Scarborough Shoal, just over 200 kilometres off the Philippines' coast, is once again in the spotlight. The Chinese coast guard fired water cannons at Philippine vessels,...

Pages 25 of 179